Guild Wars 2

I am sure quite a few people have a few legendaries they just don’t use any more, Just make all the salvaged materials account bound as to avoid changing the economy. Somet i would like people to be thinking about. XP

Why on Tyria would you ever want to salvage a legendary?

MadOtaku.8532:

I am sure quite a few people have a few legendaries they just don’t use any more, Just make all the salvaged materials account bound as to avoid changing the economy. Somet i would like people to be thinking about. XP

I’ll give you Omnomnom berries for it.

/me facepalms so hard his head explodes.

MadOtaku.8532:

I am sure quite a few people have a few legendaries …

I really doubt this.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of the player base actually have legendaries though. Unfortunately, I doubt Anet will make that information public.

Menadena.7482:

Why on Tyria would you ever want to salvage a legendary?

Because you have two (made pre-wardrobe) for the novelty of wielding two of the same skin at once.

If I could recoup the mats and use them toward a different legendary I would.

I would absolutely salvage one of my old legendaries that I no longer use if it gave me some of the more difficult to acquire materials back so that I could craft another legendary.

Just craft 3 more and see if you can MF them. No prob.

Menadena.7482:

Why on Tyria would you ever want to salvage a legendary?

One would ask the same question about ascended equipment, yet there that is in game…

I saw a video of someone salvaging Eternity. I lost my kitten.

Miserymachine.7512:

I saw a video of someone salvaging Eternity. I lost my kitten.

My question is – what did they get out of it??

Lothirieth.3408:

Menadena.7482:

Why on Tyria would you ever want to salvage a legendary?

One would ask the same question about ascended equipment, yet there that is in game…

With ascended the answer is obvious, it’s quite easy to end up with ascended items you don’t need, I’ve seen screenshots of people who regularly run fractals that have whole bank tabs full of unused rings. Hell I started build a set for my ele before the latest new trait system murdered that character, and I would like to reclaim the resources I spent in that project.

Lothirieth.3408:

Menadena.7482:

Why on Tyria would you ever want to salvage a legendary?

One would ask the same question about ascended equipment, yet there that is in game…

Ascended is no where near the difficulty or cost of legendary. Please…

Miserymachine.7512:

I saw a video of someone salvaging Eternity. I lost my kitten.

I don’t know if it used to be possible early on but as long as I’ve had my legendary (about a year now) it’s not been possible to salvage them.

If it can give back the Gift of xx from the respected legendary, I think salvaging legendary is a good idea :P

Bad idea. It would devalue the twice told legend + own 5 different legendary achievement.

femalehumanmeta.8351:

It would be interesting to know what percentage of the player base actually have legendaries though. Unfortunately, I doubt Anet will make that information public.

GW2Effeciency has some interesting stats available about accounts that have signed up there. They have an overall number of about 40% of accounts having at least one legendary. That’s likely a bit high, I doubt many newbies make their first character and then immediately sign up for GW2Effeciency so the sample is kind of biased. But it’s better than nothing.

Then the legendary would stay in wardrobe and all you’d need are precursors to unlock them all.

Agemnon.4608:

Then the legendary would stay in wardrobe and all you’d need are precursors to unlock them all.

And what is so bad about it?

Plus Gift of xx (for example, Bolt) can only be used on one type of legendary anyway.
All you save is Gift of Fortune and Gift of Mastery.

I’d say it can return Gift of Fortune and Gift of xx (respected legendary) but not Gift of Mastery, so people still have to explore the whole world for making extra legendaries.